There is a longstanding and growing public debate about the costs and benefits of automation. Earlier this year, Bill Gates argued that robots who take human jobs should pay taxes. Mark Zuckerberg recently warned the graduating class at Harvard University that, “Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks.” Elon Musk has joined the ranks of industrialists in favor of guaranteed minimum income, which he says will be necessitated by automation.

It isn’t just industry leaders who are aware of the problems automation poses. This year the EU … Read more

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